I think providing a place to live is only a small piece of the puzzle to solving homelessness.
Yes, absolutely. Pretending that these people are on the streets because of tough luck and that they can be helped by just putting them in housing is delusional.
Homelessness is almost always the cause of a more severe issue and if you are ignoring that much more severe issue you are at best masking symptoms. A meth addict, with zero non-addicts in his life, is not suddenly going to stop being an addict because he has a place to stay. And his real problem is the meth addiction and not that he has no place to stay.
>I think providing a place to live is only a small piece of the puzzle to solving homelessness.
The much more difficult puzzle pieces are how to deal with the underlying causes. Ignoring these real causes also does not help anyone.
In the other hand, the people that are most visible and cause the most problems for the normies probably do fall into those two groups. So I can understand why people think that.
It can't be the last step, but we've got a lot of evidence it helps as a first step.
> The much more difficult puzzle pieces are how to deal with the underlying causes. Ignoring these real causes also does not help anyone.
It's a lot easier to get therapy, addiction treatment, and other services if you're not looking for somewhere to shelter all the time.
toomuchtodo•6mo ago